Uncertainty surrounding Brexit is a mounting concern for the energy industry, according to a new report by the Energy Institute. The body’s 2018 Energy Barometer, which has been published on Tuesday (19 June), says the UK’s withdrawal from the EU was identified by its fellows and associate members as the second most pressing challenge facing the sector, up from fifth last year. Despite an intervening year of negotiations with Brussels, acute concerns expressed in the 2017 survey have intensified around skilled workforce availability and the future relationship between the UK and the EU single energy market. At the report’s launch, Joanne Wade, chief executive of the Association for the Conservation of Energy, said: “The Brexit fog is greater than it was last year. We still don’t know whether we have the workforce that we need and what the relationship (with the EU) is going to be and the date is getting ever closer.”
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